Use Your Uniqueness

Let’s look at a basic outline taken from Lucado's book of what we’ll be covering in this course. I’ve included just a small overview of each point here, and we’ll develop them much further in future lessons.

Use your uniqueness
(what you do)

Remember the story that Jesus told the people of his day about the talents given by the Master to his servants? In Matthew 25:14-30, Jesus said that the master gave each servant according to his own ability. The first two servants invested their talents and doubled them. The last servant was afraid so he hid his talent to try to preserve it until the master came back.

What happened? The master was pleased with the first two equally because they had both taken what they were given, had taken a risk and put them to work out in the marketplace. He welcomed them into his favor and reward. The last servant was given a “tongue lashing” and called a “wicked servant” because he had taken no risks, had misunderstood his master and had done nothing with what he had been given.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to end up my life and have to stand before God to give account for my life and say that I was afraid to do anything with it.

If you are going to be a good steward of what He has given you, then it would probably be in your best interest to discover who you are. We’ll talk in the next lesson a little bit more about a concept called “unpacking your bag.” Lucado uses it in the book to illustrate how God has packed our bags for us for this journey through life. And if we want to know where we are going and what we are supposed to do, we should look in our bags.

The way that we’ll do that is to go back through our early lives and think about certain kinds of stories that will give us insight into who God made us to be. You’ll get more information on that later.